The blog posts below are taken from my grandmother's diaries. Althea Green Smith Crook was lovingly referred to as Nanny to her immediate family ~ thus her diaries are called Nanny's Diaries.

Nanny wrote in her diaries when she remembered to - mostly in the evening. There will be some years in which she didn't keep diaries and there will also be some days/weeks in her yearly diaries in which she skipped or forgot to write in them. For the most part, these are her words - written as she wrote them. There will be typos, forgotten punctuation, and other grammatical errors - but I am rewriting these as my Nanny originally wrote them.

As with all old handwriting, there are some entries that I can't quite make out - and these entries will be followed with a (?) to signify that this may or may not be correct or I can't figure out what she is trying to write.

Thank you Nanny for leaving us 50 years worth of memories! We miss you!

Monday, December 28, 2015

September 21 - 23, 1957



Saturday, September 21, 1957

A very hot day. I did regular work. Bobby Smart shot himself last night in the foot. Was taken from this hospital to Portland hospital today. We sat on porch tonight. We saw a bull moose tonight over to Raymonds. Dorothea and her husband called tonight.




Sunday, September 22, 1957 Hot
I went down to Mrs. Dearborn’s with Dot and Forrest. Kennie and Dot called. Fern, Mrs. Christen and Aunt Ava. Dot and Forrest and Raymond called. Sat on the porch late tonight, had thundershowers tonight. Evie Virgin died about midnight.



Monday, September 23, 1957

Cloudy and rained this morning. I washed. Delores called in a.m. Blanche called, she and I went to Norway in the p.m. In evening Bill and I went up to Forrest and over to Dr. Newth. Edith McAllister called.
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